Re: web site markup errors

[<pl...@pi...>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:36:35 +0100, <pl...@pi...> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:57:42 +0100, Ethan Merritt
> <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> Not sure what errors you were getting.
>> The only validation errors I get for the gnuplot home page are warnings
>> like "left-border: 3%" is deprecated syntax.  There is no font-size
>> markup
>> other than the header and footer.
>>
>
>
> It should be pretty clear what errors there were , I posted a link to the
> validiator at w3c I used and cut and pasted most of the errors it showed.
>
> The fact the text was coming out other than intended could be due to any
> mark up error screwing up the parsing near the text concerned. It may
> misinterpret quite a bit before it gets back in sync.
>
> I saw no point in working out extactly why it was wrong until the
> maintainer of the page got it to validate.
>
> Some of the more recent links in this thread seem to be fixed since that
> text is coming out much more readably and "gnuplot homepage" is no longer
> wrapping.
>
> I'll wait for the dust to settle on these changes and post back if I  
> still
> see anything out of place.
>
> Use of the w3c validator should get things in order anyway.
>
> regards.
>

BTW you currently have at least three things calling themselves "gnuplot  
homepage":

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://www.gnuplot.info/
http://www.gnuplot.info/documentation.html

My comments were based on 2) the top google result , 3) would seems to be  
an incorrect title but is coming up 2nd place on google.

The one you all seem to be calling the homepage is not even in the top 30  
google results , so I guess you need to be on the team to know it's there.

While there is some work being done on the site content you may want to  
rationalise some of the confusion there.

regards, Peter.